Soothing.

She said, "What do you do to comfort yourself?"

1. Move

2. Eat

3. Sleep

4. Create

5. Listen

...not necessarily in that order. 

"Live through this, and you won't look back."

"I have created myself a soul, big as the world, that leaks all over, and I have to keep calling for the plumber. I have to be rent and pulled apart and live according to the demons and the imagination in me. I'm restless. Things are calling me away. My hair is being pulled by the stars again.” 
― Anaïs Nin, Fire: From A Journal of Love - The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin